Re: passwd command in LSB spec
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:07:16PM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> For the passwd command, we have the following in the current spec:
> passwd [-l] [user]
> The specification for "passwd" is as specified in the BSD.Options
> -l update password only in local password file
> The parameter -l is used by the passwd command from the shadow suite
> and most other commercial unix as paramter for locking an account.
> Is it really usefull to define something different here ?
No, we agreed to use the shadow-suite as the Linux de facto Standard.
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